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The family of a Colorado third grader is furious after he was suspended for sniffing his shirt. School administrators accused 8-year-old Eathen Harris of trying to get high by huffing a stripe of magic marker on his shirt, MyFOXColorado reported.
Zero tolerance, I tell you! One day an 8 year old is sniffing his own shirt, the next, he's encouraging his classmates to join him in snorting cocaine off of the school toilet lids!
On a side note, when I was in school, the magic markers we used smelled like different things: yellow was lemon, brown was gingerbread, red was cherry. Is that what they're talking about?? Aren't the MEANT to be sniffed?
I was also thinking that when my kids were that age the sold scented markers-grape, lemon etc. I also was remembering back when I was in school, the first thing we did when we had mimeographs passed out (anyone else remember those??) was take a nice big sniff!
Again, the paranoid War On Drugs has taken on loopy dimensions. The total absence of common sense seems to characterize matters.
The nationwide "zero tolerance" craze of the 90s is still causing school administrators to over-react outrageously to benign situations like this.
Why?
Because so many districts still subscribe to the idiotic zero tolerance guidelines. It's much easier for an administrator to justify too stiff a penalty than it is for them to try to pass off an innocent situation as insignificant. They're doing these supposedly stupid things to protect their jobs, people.
Ahh, I loved those markers!! What's the point, if you're not supposed to smell them? I remember the brown as being gingerbread or cinnamon or something, but maybe at one time they were chocolate... or maybe the chocolate just smelled weirdly spicy to me, LOL.
The nationwide "zero tolerance" craze of the 90s is still causing school administrators to over-react outrageously to benign situations like this.
Why?
Because so many districts still subscribe to the idiotic zero tolerance guidelines. It's much easier for an administrator to justify too stiff a penalty than it is for them to try to pass off an innocent situation as insignificant. They're doing these supposedly stupid things to protect their jobs, people.
Zero tolerance for career criminals makes sense but not for KIDS..good grief this has become so out of hand
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Explains a lot, I know.
